Remote Desktop tricks for Linux users
January 7th, 2013
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If you like to make RDP connections to Windows machines from your Linux box, it is often convenient if you can set a few things right from the start. As such, I wrote a little shell script around rdesktop, in order to make life somewhat easier for me.
This script does the following:
- invoke rdesktop
- set the keyboard layout to Belgian AZERTY
- set the screen resolution to something that fits the screen of my laptop
- map a local directory so it is available on the remote Windows box
And here is the script:
#!/bin/bash #----------------------------------------- # simple wrapper for rdesktop # set keyb layout on server to azerty BE # set window size to 1370x840 #----------------------------------------- if [ $# != "0" ] ; then rdesktop -k nl-be -r 'disk:homedrv=/home/david/' -g 1370x840 $1 else echo "$0: No arguments were supplied. Please supply a valid target hostname or IP address." exit 1 fi exit 0
The script must be invoked with one arument, the hostname or IP adress of the machine you want to connect to. I guess the script is simple enough to understand what it does. Adapt it to your particular needs, and I hope you like it.